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Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis - Call for Papers: Utilizing IoT for Urban Microclimate Monitoring

Guest Editors: Dr. Mingwei Lin, Dr. Harish Garg, Dr. Bahram Farhadinia

Nowadays, due to the increase in climate change problems worldwide, there is a need to enhance the monitoring techniques for improving nature's climate, especially in urban areas. Analysis and real-time monitoring of the environment is one of the essential requirements to enhance the smart city goals with the help of IoT devices. The heterogeneous sensor data of the IoT devices will help the professionals analyze the data and provide the solutions for its overall benefit. Climate monitoring plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life and its surroundings. The increase in industrial activities and many other changes such as increasing infrastructure by cutting trees in the urban area have led to climate change such as increased temperature, humidity, and other problems related to air quality such as carbon monoxide particulate matter and smoke. The overall need of this climate monitoring is to store the data obtained from the various IoT devices and store it in the cloud for analyzing the data concerning time and provide the solutions for enhancing the quality of climate.


The microclimate is the process of monitoring the environmental conditions of a small area from other surrounding areas and creating an artificial environment for the specific purpose of having better results. The urban weather shows the different weather conditions compared to the rural rear mainly due to increased population and infrastructure. In the urban area, the outdoor and Indoor environments also show different results that need monitoring for overall healthy lifestyles. To modernize the city, wireless network sensors are used in monitoring, and these sensors are connected with smart devices. Then the information required is collected and analyzed concerning space and time. With the help of professionals, the interpreted data is used to provide the solutions to the challenges of climate within the connected area and then implemented to enhance the climatic conditions.


The potential challenges of using IoT sensors for microclimate monitoring are mainly compatibility with the IoT devices, security of data, attack of malware on the IoT devices, and scalability of IoT devices. And challenges associated with the sensing capability of IoT devices and building infrastructure for monitoring these devices and the challenges of storing data. Despite its potential advantages based on the above, we invite researchers from the IoT and climate management professionals to work on the research gap related to the challenges implementation of IoT devices for microclimate monitoring and provide the potential solutions for its implementation for a healthy lifestyle in the urban area.

Original research and review articles in this area are encouraged in the following topic areas including, but are not limited to,


  • Potential Problems of Climate Change in Urban Areas
  • Advance Technologies to Enhance the Air Quality in Urban Areas
  • Role of IoT Devices to Enhance the Smart City LifeStyle
  • Home Automation using IoT Devices
  • Security Issues Related to IoT Devices: Opportunities and Challenges
  • Microclimate Monitoring and Its Advantages
  • Role of IoT Devices in Traffic Management
  • Current Challenges of Urban Area: Opportunities and Innovations
  • Enhancing Indore Climate using IoT Devices
  • Future of Smart City with IoT Devices
  • Data Analytics of Small Scale Climate Model Wireless Sensors for Climate Monitoring.


Guest Editor Details:

Lead Guest Editor:

Dr. Mingwei Lin

College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350117, China.

College of Mathematics and Informatics, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350117, China.

mingweilin88@yahoo.com (this opens in a new tab)

Dr. Harish Garg

Associate Professor,

School of Mathematics,

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed University), Patiala - 147004, Punjab, India.

 harishg58iitr@gmail.com (this opens in a new tab), harish.garg@thapar.edu (this opens in a new tab)

Dr. Bahram Farhadinia

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematical

Faculty of Engineering

Quchan University of Technology, Quchan, Iran

bfarhadinia@qiet.ac.ir (this opens in a new tab) ; bahramfarhadinia@yahoo.com (this opens in a new tab)

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